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Russell, Charles Edward : Blaine of Maine: His Life and Times

Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, New York, 1931

Original publisher's blue cloth binding with a multicolored dust wrapper that has an illustrated portrait of James G. Blaine on the front panel and a small illustration of an eagle on the spine. Dust wrapper in mylar. Gilt lettering on front cover of the book. 6 1/2" x 9 3/4." 446 pages, complete. Eight black and white plates, complete. Index in the back. Back panel of the dust wrapper has an advertisement for two other biographies. Pages and covers of the book are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. Dust wrapper is very clean and intact overall. Dust wrapper has very slight edge wear and a few small, faint dampstains in the upper corners of the back panel and two corners at the fore-edge of the front panel. Dust wrapper is not price-clipped. No remainder marks. A Fine book in a Fine dust wrapper. James G. Blaine (1830-1893) was an American politician who substantial political career included serving as a U.S. Representative of Maine, Speaker of the House, a U.S. Senator, Secretary of State, and the Republican presidential candidate who ran against Grover Cleveland. Excerpt from the front and back flaps of the dust wrapper: "For twenty-five years after the Civil War, the history of the United States is dominated by the figure of James G. Blaine. He wielded a power in Congress that no one after him--not even Mark Hanna--surpassed. He was involved in all the presidential campaigns of the period, and only dire accident prevented his election. ... Where is a story more typical of our adulation of personalities, our hysterical election habits, than the Blaine-Cleveland campaign? Blaine, under a cloud of graft charges, is nevertheless practically assured victory over the Democratic nominee because a moral lapse has been uncovered in Cleveland's past ... when lo! an exuberant Blaine-ite hurls 'Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion' at the Democrats, and Cleveland is elected on the reaction! ... [Charles Russell] provides a valuable study and a new interpretation of the South's return to the union, the problems of reconstruction, and the first stirrings of American as a world power. ... In all, [Russell's] book may well be the final word on the almost fabulous seventies and eighties. When James G. Blaine was the national hero and held the portfolio of Secretary of State, Charles Edward Russell was a Washington correspondent and political reporter. [Russell's] biography of Theodore Roosevelt won the 1927 Pulitzer Prize, and he has also written biographies of Charlemagne, Thomas Chatterton, Wendell Phillips, Julia Marlowe and Haym Solomon, the Jewish patriot and financial adviser in the American Revolution. Mr. Russell was long active in national politics and was a member of the Root Mission to Russia in 1917.". Book. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Fine

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